| February 2nd, 2012 | This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
For several years we have been following the advance of spring on the East Coast of the United States by participating in the Paideia School’s science project. Our editor, Kellie Gutman, writes:
The letter arrived on January 7th, the address printed in a
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| February 1st, 2012 | This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
To celebrate thirty years of groundbreaking international theatre across London, LIFT partnered with Arts Admin., as part of the IMAGINE 2020 network, to commission a new piece of public art work in central London. Michael Pinsky, a renowned British artist, who
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| January 17th, 2012 | This post comes to you from Ashden Directory Following Solitaire Townsend’s suggestions for metaphors – teen-aged sex, Shakespeare, and advice to the dude – Ed Gillespie, co-founder of Futerra, emailed us to add a crucial component to the art of sustainability. Ed writes:
To add to Soli’s suggestions I would include:
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| December 14th, 2011 | A free lunch was served to over 5,000 people in Trafalgar Square. All the ingredients used for the lunch are fresh and would otherwise be wasted – wonky carrots, mis-shapen potatoes and other fresh surplus produce.
There were live cooking demonstrations and plenty of other activities to get stuck into, all of which involved enjoying delicious food rather than
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| December 13th, 2011 | This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
In Nottingham, there’s a three-day celebration of the apple.In Edinburgh, David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous, and Being Animal: An Earthy Cosmology, gives a public talk.
In London, Arcola’s Green Sundays return with a focus on recycling and upcycling.
In the bookshops,
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| December 4th, 2011 | This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
Our series of new metaphors for sustainability continues with Annie Cattrell’s two meanings for ‘Fetch’. A visual artist, born in Glasgow, living and working in London, Annie is a tutor at the Royal College of Art and a senior research fellow in Fine Art
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| November 18th, 2011 | This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
Wallace Heim writes:
We began thinking about metaphor and sustainability when we noticed that there weren’t any strong or imaginative metaphors for the concept, or ones that we could easily use in conversation. Metaphors are pervasive in human thought and communication. ‘Sustainability’ stood out as an
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| November 14th, 2011 | This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
Sue Palmer, an artist making live and digital work with people and place, and author of inquiline, a blog on botany and art, suggests song as a metaphor for sustainability.
the extraordinary song:often straightforward, yet infinitely complex
the diversity (how many millions
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| November 10th, 2011 | This post comes to you from Ashden Directory Margaret Atwood and Helen Simpson discuss I’m With The Bears, a new collection of short stories about climate change, with Mariella Frostrup on BBC Radio 4′s Open Book.
Helen Simpson says one problem of writing about climate change is the moralizing:
“That’s about
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| October 15th, 2011 | http://vimeo.com/29785176
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My Last Car, commissioned by Tipping Point, I Move, and the Warwick Arts Centre, has its final performances today through Saturday at the Warwick Arts Centre. Everyone remembers their first car; what if their present car were their last car? The
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Welcome to the CSPA Quarterly 7 is now available
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Sustainability in Theater
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